[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A group of items related to the NAACP incl. membership card and certificate.
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$400 -
$600
Sold for $1,080
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A group of items related to the NAACP incl. membership card and certificate.
3 7/8 x 2 5/8 in. NAACP membership card (toning and wear to edges) for "Mr. Jesse C. Butler." Date stamped November 1939. Verso printed with the multi-faceted purpose of the NAACP, including "To educate America to accord full rights and opportunities to Negroes;" "To fight injustice in Courts when based on race prejudice;" "To stop lynching;" and more.
6 x 7 in. NAACP membership certificate (toning, creasing, some wear to edges and corners) for "Mr. J. E. Weaver" of Texarkana, Texas. Date stamped 2 March 1922, No. 3418. Verso lists the various classes of membership along with their respective costs.
Typed letter unsigned. Addressed to Messers A & L Sablosky of Garrick Theatre, Norristown, PA. Norristown, PA, 13 August 1918. 2 1/4 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (creased, with some small separations and losses, spotting). On Norristown Association for the Advancement of Colored People letterhead. Letter regards the upcoming showing of "The Birth of a Nation" at the Garrick Theatre on 19 August 1918. In part: "We sincerely regret that arrangements have been made for this exhibition and desire to inform you that if the film is shown, it will be over the severest protest which can be entered against it by the Colored People of this community and vicinity...This play, 'The Birth of a Nation,' is reprehensible to the best thinking white and colored People, in Every community where it has been exhibited. Several Pennsylvania communities have refused permission to exhibit the film, and wherever it has be [sic] shown the seed of RACE HATE and MOB VIOLENCE has been sown and has resulted in intensifying the spirit of RACE ANTIPATHY and caused a wider separation between the races...Should this exhibition provoke a clash between the races, you would be responsible."
And 3 other items, including an invitation to the Chicago NAACP Fighting Fund for Freedom Dinner at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on 16 June 1967; a resolutions booklet for the NAACP 43rd Annual Conference held in Oklahoma City, OK from 24-29 June 1952; and 7/8 diam. blue and white NAACP "Member / 1968" pinback.
6 x 7 in. NAACP membership certificate (toning, creasing, some wear to edges and corners) for "Mr. J. E. Weaver" of Texarkana, Texas. Date stamped 2 March 1922, No. 3418. Verso lists the various classes of membership along with their respective costs.
Typed letter unsigned. Addressed to Messers A & L Sablosky of Garrick Theatre, Norristown, PA. Norristown, PA, 13 August 1918. 2 1/4 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (creased, with some small separations and losses, spotting). On Norristown Association for the Advancement of Colored People letterhead. Letter regards the upcoming showing of "The Birth of a Nation" at the Garrick Theatre on 19 August 1918. In part: "We sincerely regret that arrangements have been made for this exhibition and desire to inform you that if the film is shown, it will be over the severest protest which can be entered against it by the Colored People of this community and vicinity...This play, 'The Birth of a Nation,' is reprehensible to the best thinking white and colored People, in Every community where it has been exhibited. Several Pennsylvania communities have refused permission to exhibit the film, and wherever it has be [sic] shown the seed of RACE HATE and MOB VIOLENCE has been sown and has resulted in intensifying the spirit of RACE ANTIPATHY and caused a wider separation between the races...Should this exhibition provoke a clash between the races, you would be responsible."
And 3 other items, including an invitation to the Chicago NAACP Fighting Fund for Freedom Dinner at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on 16 June 1967; a resolutions booklet for the NAACP 43rd Annual Conference held in Oklahoma City, OK from 24-29 June 1952; and 7/8 diam. blue and white NAACP "Member / 1968" pinback.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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